State Forest Fire in Victoria Melbourne
Incendiarism is suspected in a fire which yesterday destroyed 150,000 young trees in the State pine plantation between Bright and Porepunkah…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1937
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Hall Destroyed by Fire in New Zealand Auckland
A fire in Te Kuiti destroyed a large store and badly damaged a public hall. Band instruments. Defence Department rifles, and equipment stored…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Residence Saved Rubbish Burning Under Steps Fire on Railway Property Moree
A fire, which occurred in the Moree residence of Mr. Alexander Glennie, of Koramba, Boomi, is believed to have been caused deliberately. A neighbour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gas Masks Used Fire in Sub-station Series of Explosions Sydney
Wearing gas masks and using oxygen outfits, firemen had a difficult task fighting a fire which broke out in an electricity underground sub-station at the corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bird's Nest Blaze Threat to Antiques Unusual Fire in Sydney Sydney
Valuable antiques and furniture were saved to-day when a fire damaged a house in Stanhope-road, Killara, A blow-lamp was being used when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Blaze Victorian Cool Stores Ships in Peril Damage Over £500,000 MELBOURNE
The Government Cool Stores at Victoria Dock, with plant and stocks, were damaged by fire this afternoon to the extent of £520,000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Early Morning Fire Call Hunter-st. Store
There was an early-morning stir in the City to-day when fire engines dashed along Hunter-street at 6.30 to attend a call to a ham store near…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Racing Stables on Fire London, January 18
Firemen rolled to blazing stables at Ne. market opened the boxes and set free 25 racehorses. The terrified animals galloped into the streets and vanished in the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Pine Forest Fire Damage in Victoria MELBOURNE
A fire, which is believed to have been wilfully caused, destroyed 150,000 young trees and threatened 6,000,000 others on the State pine plantation of 10,000 acres,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Set Car on Fire Man's Admissions to Police ADELAIDE
Cyril Herbert Gordon, of Queenstown, walked into the city watch-house this morning and handed the sergeant in charge a loaded revolver. He said he…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire on Train "Due to Incendiarism" Time Bombs Discovered Hongkong, January 18
The railway authorities declare that the fire on the Kowloon-Canton express was due to incendiarism. Baskets filled with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No Fire Escape Nurse Burned to Death Spectacular Rescues New York, January 18
Trapped in a converted residence, lacking a fire escape, a nurse was burned to death, and another gravely injured. Several of the inmates were rescued in a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Docks Fire (Continued from page 1.) Brigades' Relief It Was Almost Disaster Melbourne
The official report on the docks fire, issued to-day by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, stated that the insurance on the cool stores was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ruins Surrounded by Lake of Butter New Outbreak in Dock Fire in Melbourne Melbourne
Between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. to-day, when the wind swung from the South to the West, there was a fresh outburst of flames at Government Cool Stores at Victoria Dock, where damage to the extent of £500,000 was done yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clarencetown Fire Volunteers Fight Sawmill Outbreak
A are damaged a sawmill and handle factory of Wellings and Lyons, at Clarencetown, at 6.30 o'clock last night. The fire started in a shavings dump, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Homestead Saved Cootha Station Fire DUBBO
After a hard fight, the Dubbo Fire Brigade to-day saved the 100-year-old homestead at Cootha Station from destruction by fire which broke out in bay…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Occupier Missing Fire Destroys Shed on Breakwater Firemen Search Ashes
Fears were entertained last night for the safety of an elderly unemployed man who had recently been living in a corrugated iron shed on the southern…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Sign of a Body Mystery of Fire in Shed
A thorough search by police and fire brigade officials this morning failed to disclose any indication of tragedy as a result…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cool Stores Fire Brigades' Great Work Damage Estimate Down Melbourne
The Chief Fire Officer (Mr. Wilkins) said to-day that the Cool Stores fire might easily have become the worst in Australia's history. If there had been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man Burned Shed and Car Destroyed by Fire
In a fire in a shed at North Wallarah colliery about 10 o'clock on Monday night, a man was severely burned. He was removed to hospital…
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